Jimmy Sengenberger

Denver

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Investigative Columnist at The Denver Gazette

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Superintendent adds another ring to DPS circus| Jimmy Sengenberger

2 days ago | gazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

Just when you thought Denver Public Schools politics couldn’t get more absurd, Superintendent Alex Marrero demanded in a letter to President Carrie Olson that the school board censure at-large Director John Youngquist — an admired former East High principal and one of Marrero’s own bosses.
Tina Peters is no martyr, Mr. President | Jimmy Sengenberger

6 days ago | gazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

President Trump just stepped into a Colorado political minefield — defending embattled former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters while missing a crucial detail about her criminal case: This wasn’t another Democratic witch hunt. It was brought by law-and-order Republicans.
Tina Peters is no martyr, Mr. President | Jimmy Sengenberger

6 days ago | denvergazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

President Trump just stepped into a Colorado political minefield — defending embattled former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters while missing a crucial detail about her criminal case: This wasn’t another Democratic witch hunt. It was brought by law-and-order Republicans.
DPS board lets Marrero off the hook | Jimmy Sengenberger

1 week ago | gazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

In a brazen 5-2 vote, the Denver Public Schools board didn’t just extend Superintendent Alex Marrero’s contract by two years — they fortified it against accountability. His $346,529 salary stays the same, but performance-based bonuses are out. Termination “without cause” now requires a supermajority, a year’s severance and 90-days’ notice instead of 60.
With 44 years between them, two blues icons meet at Denver's Paramount Theatre on Friday

1 week ago | denvergazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

Bluesman Bobby Rush stakes claim to being the oldest blues singer alive today. At 91, the legendary harmonica player is joining forces with 47-year-old guitar hero Kenny Wayne Shepherd on a 24-stop national tour that bridges musical styles and generations — and they’re coming to Colorado. “Bobby is a living legend. I mean, he’s 91 years old, and he’s still going stronger than anybody I’ve ever seen at his age, or even younger,” Shepherd told The Denver Gazette. “Bobby is the real deal.
Lakewood’s shady Jeffco Schools business deal | Jimmy Sengenberger

1 week ago | denvergazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

The backroom deal I warned about last year is now playing out in broad daylight. In February 2024, I asked whether Lakewood was eyeing a bargain on the closed Emory Elementary — a deal that could dodge public input and leave Jeffco taxpayers holding the bag. Fifteen months later, the answer is a resounding yes. On Monday, Lakewood’s City Council authorized a $4 million below-market purchase of the school — a site that got $2.6 million in taxpayer-funded upgrades before Jeffco closed it in 2023.
‘Misgendering’ bill is intimidation, not justice | Jimmy Sengenberger

2 weeks ago | gazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

Durango mom Cindy Stein was undergoing chemotherapy when her 17-year-old daughter — a socially awkward girl with autism and ADHD — began to change. Once a “girly girl,” she started dressing in men’s clothes, dyeing her hair, shaving her head and questioning her gender identity. Unbeknownst to Stein, her daughter’s math teacher — whose partner is transgender — had quietly befriended her. The crisis sparked by text: “I don’t think I’m a boy.
The mixed legacy of Francis, Jesuit Pope | Jimmy Sengenberger

3 weeks ago | gazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

In 2008, as I prepared to enter my freshman year at Regis University, I met former Colorado U.S. Rep. Bob Schaffer. When I mentioned I was headed to Regis, he half-joked that the Jesuits — the religious order behind the school — were the “hippies of the Catholic Church.”Although I didn’t quite get it then, his quip has stuck with me ever since. Once I was deeply entrenched in campus life, I began to understand.
‘Trusted adults’ sideline parents at Jeffco Schools | Jimmy Sengenberger

3 weeks ago | gazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

At the April 10 Jeffco School Board meeting, parents dropped bombshell allegations — from grooming and sexual abuse to secret “exams” and efforts to hide information from families. Jeffco Kids First founder Lindsay Datko detailed 26 cases of misconduct backed by records Jeffco claims not to recognize.
Sorry, Wanda; ‘Tea on THC’ is on target | Jimmy Sengenberger

1 month ago | gazette.com | Jimmy Sengenberger

At the University of Colorado Board of Regents meeting last Thursday, Wanda James stepped off the dais, pointed fingers at her colleagues, and cast herself as the victim — in a controversy entirely of her own making. James — a prominent and politically connected pot entrepreneur and self-proclaimed “pothead” who owns Simply Pure dispensary in Denver — had declared war on the Colorado School of Public Health’s “Tea on THC” campaign in January.